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BOSTON IWW’S TO GCI: F U! |
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by Boston IWW, |
 Reposted from the Boston IWW blog.
Today Wobblies from Boston took to the street to support Portland OR canvassers, employed by Grassroots Campaigns Inc (GCI), who formed the United Campaign Workers* union in response to poverty pay, impossible quotas, meager training, and blatant disrespect. Canvassers’ demands included $15/hr, overtime pay, and sick leave. The company retaliated by shutting down its Portland operation, laying off employees with no notice and just two days’ wages! |
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04 Oct 2014
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Filed under: News / Labor : Organizing |
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Two Pieces on Surveillance |
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by Institute for the Study of Insurgent Warfare, |
Surveillance // Panopticon // Security Culture // Paranoia
Why hammer out concepts--be it speculative, critical, or pragmatist--if there is a meta-authority overseeing it all? Why conspire in the light?....We need to develop dissident knowledge of how to bring down drones, detect sensors, hack servers, distort GPS signals, and disrupt Google by fooling its algorithms. Forget the next innovation cycle. If the common hacker’s paranoia informs us correctly, we lost the war years ago and are surrounded. Soon we will be called to surrender, one by one.
--Geert Lovink "Hermes on the Hudson: Notes on Media Theory after Snowden. e-flux.com/journal, April 4, 2014.
A culture of security is one which enhances an organization's capacity to determine its interests and act on them in spite of another organization's opposed interests. Corporate workforces and law enforcement agencies both cultivate cultures of security, as do management teams, investment rings, smugglers, unions, militia men, and academic researchers. All of these cultures are supposed to control flows of information (trade secrets, exclusive suppliers, price indexes, strategic plans, etc.) and restrict communication in furtherance of an organization's interests.
Among dissident circles, the term Security Culture has been popularized as a response to the absence of organization and shared organizational interests. Security Culture carries a few hard and fast rules (don't talk to cops, need-to-know basis, interrupt gossip, etc.) which have established a rough outline of best practices when daily life and sensitive operations overlap or are indistinguishable.
Best practices are fundamental to the Insurgent, who frequently operates without clear structures of command and communication, enjoys limited operational awareness, and can hardly imagine an everyday life divorced from sensitive operations. The Insurgent, however, should not be confused with a dissident or “common hacker,” as Lovink puts it, and the conflation of Security Culture with Operations Security carries heavy tolls. |
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HONK! Festival To Be Held October 10 - 12 |
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by HONK! Festival, |
 FESTIVAL OF ACTIVIST STREET BANDS
NINTH ANNUAL
ROSTER OF BANDS
FROM ALL OVER
NOW SET
October 10 through 12, 2014
A wide variety of events scheduled
in Somerville, Cambridge, & Boston
ALL FREE AND OPEN TO ALL |
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24 Sep 2014
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Filed under: Announcement / Radical Culture |
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Terrorism, COINTELPRO, and the Black Panther Party --An interview with law professor Angela A. Allen-Bell |
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by Angola 3 News, |
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In her new law journal article, “Activism Unshackled & Justice Unchained,” law professor Angela A. Allen-Bell concludes that the US government’s multi-faceted response to the BPP, primarily within the framework of the FBI’s infamous COINTELPRO, was indeed the very definition of terrorism. Bell writes that “the magnitude of the unwarranted harm done to the BPP has not yet been explored in an appropriate fashion. Much like a fugitive, it has eluded justice.” As a result, “the FBI's full-scale assault on the social movements of the 1960s and 1970s remains an open wound for the nation itself. This is more than a national tragedy; this is a human wrong." |
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07 Sep 2014
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Filed under: Interview / Human Rights : Police and Prisons : Race |
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Anarchist Reportback from Ferguson |
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by chris irwin, |
 Went to Ferguson last week, here is what I saw.
Several people have asked me to write about what I found in Ferguson today. Here is my brief dehydrated tired scribble before bed. Do not judge me I literally just typed this out.
Grief, pride and anger is the short answer. |
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